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INDIANA STATE COLLEGE

INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA

MoAck I960

Are You Still Reading Books?

• Are you still reading books? A
study by Dr. George Gallup of
the Gallup Polls made recently
reveals that a large percentage
of college graduates do not read
so much as one book a year. It
may also be observed that a high
percentage also of college grad-
uates do not become involved in
any cultural or civic enterprises as
spectators or participants.

Dr. Gallup's survey disclosed
that only 17% of American
adults read books, compared to
31% in Canada and 55% in
England. Further, the Gallup Poll
revealed that 26% of American
college graduates had not read
a single book during the preced-
ing year.

In this particular Gallup Poll,
college alumni were given the
name of twelve famous books.
Nine per cent could not name the
author of any one; thirty-nine
per cent could not name more
than three.

How well can you do? Here
are the twelve titles. Fill in the
authors' names, then check your
answers on page 1 2.

1 . An American Tragedy, 2.
Babbitt, 3. Canterbury Tales, 4.
Gulliver's Travels, 5. Leaves of
Grass, 6. The Old Wives' Tale,
7. Utopia, 8. Vanity Fair, 9. Orig-
in of the Species, 10. The Wealth
of Nations, 11. The Rubaiyat, 12.
Tom Jones.

Issued quarterly by the

General Alumni Association

State College

Indiana, Pennsylvania

March, 1960

Editor Arthur F. Nicholson

Associate Editor Marie Sacco

Executive Secretary Mary L. Esch

President of the College

Willis E. Pratt

Alumni units and individuals having
news for this bulletin are urged to send
same to the editor as early as possible.
Give the complete details of who,
what, when, where, how, and why.

Alumni News Bulletins are published
every October, December, March and
June, as of the first of the respective
month. News deadline for each issue
is 30 - days prior to the printing date.
For example news for the June 1,
I960 issue should be available May
I, I960.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President — Franklin H. George, 775 Wayne Ave., Indiana, Pa.
Vice President — Mrs. Audrey S. Graham, 5 17 McNair Ave., Pittsburgh 2 1, Pa.
Secretary — Mrs. Mary Bagley, Cherry Tree, Pa.

Executive Secretary - Treasurer — Miss Mary L. Esch, 399 South Sixth St., Indiana,
Pa. (Phone No. Indiana 5-4169)

ALUMNI NEWS BULLETIN

VOLUME II March - i960 NUMBER 3

State College, Indiana, Pennsylvania

University Education
and Modern Conditions*

by
Bertrand Russell

Education is a vast and connplex subject involving many problems
of great difficulty. I propose, in what follows, to deal with only one of
these problems, namely, the adaption of university education to modern
conditions.

Universities are an institution of considerable antiquity. They de-
veloped during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries out of cathedral
schools' where scholastic theologians learned the art of dialectic. But, in
fact, the aims which inspired universities go back to ancient times.

One may say that Plato's Academy was the first university. Plato's
Academy had certain well-marked objectives. It aimed at producing the
sort of people who would be suitable to become Guardians in his ideal
Republic. The education which Plato designed was not in his day what
would now be called "cultural." A "cultural" education consists mainly
in the learning of Greek and Latin. But the Greeks had no need to learn
Greek and no occasion to learn Latin. What Plato mainly wished his
Academy to teach was, first, mathematics and astronomy, and, then,
philosophy . The philosophy was to have a scientific inspiration with a
a tincture of Orphic mysticism.

Something of this sort, in various modified forms, persisted in the
West until the Fall of Rome. After some centuries, it was taken up by
the Arabs and, from them, largely through the Jews, transmitted back
to the West. In the West it still retained much of Plato's original political
purpose, since it aimed at producing an educated elite with a more or
less complete monopoly of political power. This aim persisted, virtually
unchanged, until the latter half of the nineteenth century. From that
time onwards, the aim has become increasingly modified by the intrusion
of two new elements: democracy and science. The intrusion of democracy
into academic practice and theory is much more profound than that of
science, and much more difficult to combine with anything like the aims
of Plato's Academy.

Until it was seen that political democracy had become inevitable,
universal education, which is now taken for granted in all civilized
countries, was vehemently opposed, on grounds which were broadly
aristocratic. There had been ever since ancient times a very sharp line
between the educated and the uneducated. The educated had had a se-
vere training and hod learnt much, while the uneducated could not read
or write. The educated, who had a monopoly of political power, dread-
ed the extension of schools to the "lower classes." The President of the
Royal Society, in the year 1807, considered that it would be disastrous
if working men could read, since he feared that they would spend their
time reading Tom Paine. When my grandfather established an ele-
mentary school in his parish, well-to-do neighbours were outraged, say-
ing that he had destroyed the hitherto aristocratic character of the neigh-
bourhood. It was political democracy — at least, in England — that
brought a change of opinion in this matter. Disraeli, after securing the

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vote for urban working men, favoured compulsory education with the
phrase, "We must educate our masters." Education came to seem the
right of all who desired it. But it was not easy to see how this right was
to be extended to university education; nor, if it were, how universities
could continue to perform their ancient functions.

The reasons which have induced civilized countries to adopt uni-
versal education are various. There were enthusiasts for enlightenment
who saw no limits to the good that could be done by instruction. Many
of these were very influential in the early advocacy of compulsory edu-
cation. Then there were practical men who realized that a modern State
and moden processes of production and distribution cannot easily be
managed if a large proportion of the population cannot read. A third
group were those who advocated education as a democratic right. There
was a fourth group, more silent and less open, which saw the possibili-
ties of education from the point of view of official propaganda. The
importance of education in this regard is very great. In the eighteenth
century, most wars were unpopular; but, since men have been able to
read the newspapers, almost all wars have been popular. This is only
one instance of the hold on public opinion which Authority has acquired
through education.

Although universities were not directly concerned in these educa-
tional processes, they have been profoundly affected by them in ways
which are, broadly speaking, inevitable, but which are, in part, very
disturbing to those who wish to preserve what was good in older ideals.

It is difficult to speak in advocacy of older ideals without using
language that has a somewhat old-fashioned flavour. There is a dis-
tinction, which formerly received general recognition, between skill and
wisdom. The growing complexities of techniques have tended to blur
this distinction, at any rate in certain regions.

There are kinds of skill which are not specially respected although
they are difficult to acquire. A contortionist, I am told, has to begin
training in early childhood, and, when proficient, he possesses a very
rare and difficult skill. But it is not felt that this skill is socially useful,
and it is, therefore, not taught in schools or universities. A great many
skills, however, indeed a rapidly increasing number, are very vital ele-
ments in the wealth and power of a nation. Most of these skills are new
and do not command the respect of ancient tradition. Some of them may
be considered to minister to wisdom, but a great many certainly do not.

But what, you will ask, do you mean by "wisdom"? I am not pre-
pared with a neat definition. But I will do my best to convey what I
think the word is capable of meaning. It is a word concerned partly
with knowledge and partly with feeling. It should denote a certain inti-
mate union of knowledge with apprehension of human destiny and the
purposes of life. It requires a certain breadth of vision, which is hardly
possible without considerable knowledge. But it demands, also, a
breadth of feeling, a certain kind of universality of sympathy.

I think that higher education should do what is possible towards
promoting not only knowledge, but wisdom. I do not think that this is
easy; and I do not think that the aim should be too conscious, for, if
it is, it becomes stereotyped and priggish. It should be something exist-
ing almost unconsciously in the teacher and conveyed almost uninten-
• tionally to the pupil. I agree with Plato in thinking this the greatest thing
that education can do. Unfortunately, it is one of the things most thieat-

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ened by the intrusion of crude democratic shibboleths into our universi-
ties.

The fanatic of democracy is apt to say that all men are equal.
There is a sense in which this is true, but it is not a sense which much
concerns the educator. What can be meant truly by the phrase "All
men are equal" is that in certain respects they have equal rights and
should have an equal share of basic political power. Murder is a crime
whoever the victim may be, and everybody should be protected against
it by the law and the police. Any set ov men or women which has no
share in political power is pretty certain to suffer injustices of an inde-
fensible sort. All men should be equal before the law. It is such princi-
ples which constitute what is valid in democracy.

But this should not mean that we cannot recognize differing degrees
of skill or merit in different individuals. Every teacher knows that some
pupils are quick to learn and others are slow. Every teacher knows that
some boys and girls are eager to acquire knowledge, while others have
to be forced into the minimum demanded by Authority. When a group
of young people are all taught together in one class, regardless of their
greater or less ability, the pace has to be too quick for the stupid and
too slow for the clever. The amount of teaching that a young person
needs depends to an enormous extent upon his ability and his tastes.
A stupid child will only pay attention to what has to be learnt while the
teacher is there to insist upon the subject-matter of the lesson. A really
clever young person, on the contrary, needs opportunity and occasional
guidance when he finds some difficulty momentarily insuperable. The
practice of teaching clever and stupid pupils together is extremely un-
fortunate, especially as regards the ablest of them. Infinite boredom
settles upon these outstanding pupils while matters that they have long
ago understood are being explained to those who are backward.

This evil is greater the greater the age of the student. By the time
that an able young man is at a university, what he needs is occasional
advice (not orders) as to what to read, and an instructor who has time
and sympathy to listen to his difficulties. The kind of instructor that I
have in mind should be thoroughly competent in the subject in which the
student is specializing, but he should be still young enough to remember
the difficulties that are apt to be obstacles to the learner, and not yet
so ossified as to be unable to discuss without dogmatism. Discussion is
a very essential part in the education of the best students and requires
an absence of authority if it is to be free and fruitful. I am thinking not
only of discussion with teachers but of discussion among the students
themselves. For such discussion, there should be leisure. And, indeed,
leisure during student years is of the highest importance. When I was
an undergraduate, I made a vow that, when in due course I became a
lecturer, I would not think that lectures do any good as a method of
instruction, but only as an occasional stimulus. So far as the abler stu-
dents are concerned, I still take this view. Lectures as a means of in-
struction are traditional in universities and were no doubt useful before
the invention of printing, but since that time they have been out of date
OS regards the abler kind of students.

It is, I am profoundly convinced, a mistake to object on democratic
grounds to the separation of abler from less able pupils in teaching.
In matters that the public considers important no one dreams of such an
application of supposed democracy. Everybody is willing to admit that

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some athletes are better than others and that movie stars deserve more
honour than ordinary mortals. That is because they have a kind of skill
v/hich is much admired even by those who do not possess it. But intel-
lectual ability, so far from being admired by stupid boys, is positively
and actively despised; and even among grown-ups, the term "egg-head"
is not expressive of respect. It has been one of the humiliations of the
military authorities of our time that the man who now a days brings suc-
cess in war is no longer a gentleman of commanding aspect, sitting up-
right upon a prancing horse, but a wretched scientist whom every mili-
tary-minded boy would have bullied throughout his youth. However, it
is not for special skill in slaughter that I should wish to see the "egg-
head" respected.

The needs of the modern world have brought a conflict, which I
think could be avoided, between scientific subjects and those that are
called "cultural." The latter represent tradition and still have, in my
country, a certain snobbish pre-eminence. Cultural ignorance, beyond a
point, is despised. Scientific ignorance, however complete, is not. I do
not think, myself, that the division between cultural and scientific edu-
cation should be nearly as definite as it has tended to become. I think
that every scientific student should have some knowledge of history and
literature, and that every cultural student should have some acquaint-
ance with some of the basic ideas of science. Some people will say that
there is not time, during the university curriculum, to achieve this. But I
think that opinion arises partly from unwillingness to adapt teaching to
those who are not going to penetrate very far into the subject in ques-
tion. More specifically, whatever cultural education is offered to scien-
tific students should not involve a knowledge of Latin or Greek. And I
think that whatever of science is offered to those who are not going to
specialize in any scientific subject should deal partly with scientific history
and partly with general aspects of scientific method. I think it is a good
thing to invite occasional lectures from eminent men to be addressed to
the general body of students and not only to those who specialize in the
subject concerned.

There are some things which I think it ought to be possible, though
at present it is not, to take for granted in all who are engaged in uni-
versity teaching. Such men or women must, of course, be proficient in
some special skill. But, in addition to this, there is a general outlook
which it is their duty to put before those whom they are instructing. They
should exemplify the value of intellect and of the search for knowledge.
They should make it clear that what at any time passes for knowledge
may, in fact, be erroneous. They should inculcate an undogmatic temper,
a temper of continual search and not of comfortable certainty. They
should try to create an awareness of the world as a whole, and not only
of what is near in space and time. Through the recognition of the likeli-
hood of error, they should make clear the importance of tolerance. They
should remind the student that those whom posterity honours have very
often been unpopular in their own day and that, on this ground, social
courage is a virtue of supreme importance. Above all, every educator
who is engaged in an attempt to make the best of the students to whom
he speaks must regard himself as the servant of truth and not of this or
that political or sectarian interest. Truth is a shining goddess, always
veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the
devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

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News Items About Indiana Grads

AS IT MUST TO ALL

• Miss Minnie F. McFarland, IS-
PS, died some time during the
last month or so of 1959 in the
West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh.
She was a public school teacher
in Pittsburgh for 46 years before
her retirement.

• Mrs. Edith Morgan Dornbush,
1899, died November 25, 1959,
In her 81st year. A native of
Wales, she was one of the first
teachers at Allegheny High
School.

• Ann Josephine Tittle, 1902,
died January 15, 1960, in Holli-
daysburg.

• Mrs. Gertrude Reven Skelly,
1903, died January 8, 1960.

• Margaretta M. Martin, 1909,
died November 29, 1959, at the
age of 70. She taught for many
years in the elementary schools
of Pittsburgh and at Schenley and
Langley.

• Floyd Willard Stewart, 1914-
1919, died December 25, 1959.

• Mrs. Bertha Breman Miller,
1921, died December 2, 1959, in
her home in New Kensington.

• Dr. Milo Gwosden, one time
ISC athlete in 1919-1922, died
October 26, 1959. After leaving
Indiana, Dr. Gwosden was a star
Pitt lineman under the late "Pop"
Warner and Dr. Jock Sutherland.

• Mrs. Estella Tate, formerly Es-
tella Nupp who attended Indiana
State College at various times
between 1925 and 1945, died
December 1 1, 1959.

IN MEMORIAM FOR
MISS MINNIE McFARLAND

• Contributions to the Jane E.
Leonard Loan Fund were recently
given in memory of Miss Minnie
McFarland, 1895, by the follow-
ing Pittsburgh individuals or
groups:

Miss Edna M. Reitz, Miss Alice
S. Burke, Miss Edith S. Lloyd,
Mary Luella and Joe Hunt, Miss
Rhoda M. Beatty, Miss Irma E.
Hamilton, Pittsburgh Unit of the
Indiana Alumni Association, and
Miss Grace Noble Lacock.

WEDDING BELLS

• Emma I. Hone, an Elementary
student at Indiana from 1931 to
1933 and a degree graduate in
January, 1948, and Mr. Gail B.
Amos were married March 27,
1959. Mrs. Amos was formerly
from Hickman, Pennsylvania, but
their new home has been estab-
lished at 930 Western Avenue,
Pittsburgh 33, Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Amos is teaching in the
third grade at the Mount Lebanon
schools.

• Doris Margaret Edwards, 1956,
married Albert E. Rairigh Novem-
ber 27, 1959. The couple reside
at 415 North Main Street, Butler.

Mrs. Rairigh is employed as a
home economics teacher in the
Butler Junior High School and
Mr. Rairigh, a graduate of Clarion
State College, is employed in the
laboratory of Castle Rubber Com-
pany, East Butler, Pa.

• Miss Isabel Fleming, 1957, was
married to James T. Ulintz August
22, 1959, in Johnsonburg, Pa.
She teaches third grade at West
Branch School in Bradford, Pa.
Mr. Ulintz, a graduate of Carson-
Newman College in Tennessee, is
physical director of the Bradford
Y.M.C.A. They live at 780 West
Washington, Bradford, Pa.

• Sandra Lee Katusin, 1959, mar-
ried Richard Irwin Brone Novem-
ber 21 ,1959. Mr. and Mrs. Brone
live at 43 D, Oakwood Manor,
Woodbury, New Jersey, where
Mr. Brone is an insurance agent.

• Miss Jane Elizabeth Hileman,
1959, was married to Ensign Wil-
liam G. Limberty on November
22, 1959, in the Brockway Pres-
byterian Church, Brockway, Pa.

They are now living in Athens,
Georgia, where Ensign Limberty
is attending the U.S. Naval Sup-
ply Corps School. Their address
is #2, 1490 Prince Avenue, Ath-
ens, Georgia.

HONORS

• The American Horse Show As-
sociation awarded Mrs. Ralph L.
Woerner (Viola Ottinger, 1916)
the high score award for 1959
which makes her "Queen of the
Tanbark". This honor was won
with her fine harness horse, Mir-
pah's Regal Fashion.

• Mrs. Harry Hoehler (Dot Hey-
den, 1923) has been elected a
member of the Tredyffrin School
Board of Chester County.

TEACHING ART

• Dr. Blanche Waugaman Jeffer-
son, 1929, and a former member
of the Indiana State College fac-
ulty, has authored a 294-page
book entitled "Teaching Art to
Children."

Both text and illustrations are
the work of the author. The book
was named by the Educator's
Book Club as its November, 1959,
selection.

The book, which she said had
been fermenting in her brain for
about five years, was written be-
cause the author felt a need for
that kind of text book.

It is a tangible illustration of
her philosophy of teaching which
is the endeavor to keep "the
emotional quality" in a child's
creative work.

Too often, she contends, it is
fenced in too soon. Planned and
patterned instructions can come
later, but early grade art students
should be given free rein to their

own creative ideas she says.

Dr. Jefferson is in private life
Mrs. William Jefferson. Her hus-
band is superintendent of schools
in New Kensington. She was born
in Vandergrift and has taught
school at all levels. She received
her B.S. degree at Indiana State
College, and her Master's and
Doctor's degree in art at Colum-
bia University.

This is her fourth year as a
member of the faculty at the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh, where she
is an assistant professor of edu-
cation.

JEWELRY EXPERT

• Last November, Madelyn L.
Krall, 1933, had 37 pieces of her
handcrafted jewelry on display
at the "Gem and Rock Show" at
the Fourth National Bank, Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Miss Krall gives credit
to Indiana for sound foundation
in art education.

After teaching three years, she
went to New York. There her
diversified study shows what she
evidenced as a student that she
would not be narrowed to one
field of thought. She took work
at T. C, Columbia, work with
sculptor Chaim Gross, and with
photographer Bernice Abbott.
During World War II, after study-
ing at the Jones School of Aero-
nautics she accepted a position
with American Airlines, Tulsa,
Oklahoma, where she has been
for fifteen years.

There are 150 men in their en-
tire instrument department. At
present, the only woman, Miss
Krall supervises fifteen men in the
maintenance and building of air-
craft instruments and testing
panels.

Her interests extend to fossils
and minerals which abound in
Oklahoma and neighboring
states. She helped to organize
the Tulsa Mineral Society who

now number 200 members — ge-
ologists, paleobotonists, arche-
ologists, et al. Here, one con
see where she finds semi-precious
stones for her hand-crafted
jewelry.

ARTIST

• The Associated Artists of Pitts-
burgh (and vicinity) accepted 14
entries of Robert J. Cronauer's
work for their show, last spring.
The scope of these entries is
amazing for what it included —
two pieces of sculpture (one a
prize winner), two oil paintings,
two water colors, one black-and-
white, two pieces of jewelry, four
enamels, and one mosaic. Mr.
Cronauer, 1937, is a member of
the art staff at Indiana State Col-
lege.

AUTHORS BOOK

• Dr. Louis C. Nanassy, 1936,
professor of business education
at Montclair State College, Upper
Montclair, N. J., is co-author of
Business Dictionary, published last
month (February) by Prentice-
Hall, Inc. Another of Dr. Nanas-
sy's books. Business Timed Writ-
ings, also came off the press
earlier this year.

Business Dictionary alphabeti-
cally lists and defines the most
common, up-to-date business and
economic terms, and also includes
an appendix of 18 tables of re-
lated resource materials. The
280-page volume is intended for
students and teachers of business
and social studies subjects, as
well as for laymen.

KEYSTONE DEGREE

• Leonard L. Holt, 1938, who is
now supervising principal of Day-
ton Joint School District, received
the honorary Keystone Farmer
Degree at the Pennsylvania State
Farm Show in Harrisburg, in Jan-
uary, 1960.

The award is one of the high-

est a person can receive from the
Future Farmers of America in
Pennsylvania.

Mr. Holt was high school prin-
cipal of the Dayton Senior High
School from 1951 to 1958, in
which year he became supervis-
ing principal.

He received his master of edu-
cation degree from the University
of Pittsburgh where he is current-
ly working on his doctorate.

He taught at McCalmont, Jeff-
erson County, High School, Big
Run Borough and Shannock Val-
ley High School before moving
to Dayton in 1951.

Mr. Holt is a member of the
Pennsylvania State Education As-
sociation, NEA, Pennsylvania As-
sociation of Chief School Admini-
strators, American Legion Post
995 of Dayton and was formerly
a member of the National Associ-
ation of Secondary School Prin-
cipals as well as the State Associ-
ation of Secondary School Prin-
cipals.

He is a veteran of World War
II.

Married to the former Dorothy
Peron, Sagamore, he is the father
of two children: Loren and Karen.

NATIVITY STORY

• Donald L. Clapper, 1950, is the
author of a musical pageant en-
titled "The Nativity Story" which
was given December 20, 1959, at
the Pine Street United Presbyter-
ian Church in Harrisburg, where
Mr. Clapper is minister of music.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

• Richard F. Heiges, 1953, re-
ceived his doctor of Philosophy
degree in political science from
Ohio State University on Decem-
ber 18, 1959.

He is now employed as a re-
search associate by the Ohio
Legislative Service Commission.
This agency assists the Ohio Gen-
eral Assembly in making special

studies of problems facing state
government.

Since graduation from Indiana
in 1953, Dr. Heiges was an officer
in the United States Army Quart-
ermaster Corps from March, 1953
to February, 1955. He served
fourteen months in Korea.

He received his master in edu-
cation degree from Ohio State
University in December, 1955.

He and Betty Ann Kummer,
were married in June, 1955. Mrs.
Heiges taught at Eastmoor High
School in Columbus, Ohio, for the
1955-56 year, after previously
having taught in the North Hills
Schools near Pittsburgh.

Dr. Heiges taught social studies
at South High School in Colum-
bus, Ohio, for two years, 1956-
1958. He taught political science
in the Ohio State University Even-
ing School from 1958 to 1960.

In his doctoral work. Dr. Heiges
prepared a dissertation entitled
"The Ohio Administrative Pro-
cedure Act, 1943 - 1959: An
Analysis and Evaluation of Its Ef-
fect."

Dr. and Mrs. Heiges have two
daughters, Susan Kay, born in
March, 1957, and Nancy Ann,
born in February, 1959. They re-
side at 698 N. Dawson Avenue,
Columbus 19, Ohio.
POSITION

• Jay Ness, 1957, is a social
studies teacher at the Stratford
Junior High School, Arlington,
Virginia. He is chairman of the
social studies there. He and his
wife, Merwyn Lee Ness, formerly
secretary in the president's office
at the college here, live at 1315
North Ode Street, Apt. 702, Ar-
lington, Va.

AS IT MUST TO ALL

• Guy C. Louver, one-time bursar
at Indiana State College, died
January 31, 1960. He was 65
years of age at the time of his
death in Falls Church, Virginia.

• Laura B. Walker, 1900, died
February 2, 1960. She was 83
years of age at the time of her
death and had served 39 years
in Egypt as missionary.

• Mrs. Senja Hill Kilkka, 1918,
died October 31, 1959 at the
Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michi-
gan. She was a charter member
of the Detroit Unit.

She held a B. A. and a M. A.
from Wayne State University in
Detroit. She was a visiting teach-
er in Highland Park, Michigan,
for 15 years. The Board of Edu-
cation adopted and dedicated a
resolution as a tribute to the
memory of Mrs. Senja Kilkka. In
part it says:

"The influence of her unselfish
devotion to the welfare of stu-
dents and her deep understand-
ing of human values will live in
the hearts of those who benefited
from her guidance and inspir-
ation."

HONORS

Dr. S. Trevor Hadley, 1937,
dean of students at ISC, is presi-
dent of the Association of State
College Faculties in Pennsylvania.

NEWS BRIEFS

• Calvin H. Blair, social studies
faculty member, is giving a three
credit college course entitled
"History of the United States and
Pennsylvania" through the facili-
ties of WQED, Channel 13 in
Pittsburgh. The course started
February 4 and is one of a series
given by Indiana State College.

• Alpha Phi Omega, national
service fraternity for college men
who were formerly boy scouts,
received their official charter for
Mu Chi Chapter at ISC on Decem-
ber 6.

• Alpha Sigma chapter of Alpha
Gamma Delta International Fra-
ternity was installed December 4-
6, 1960, at Indiana State Col-
lege.

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News from the Alumni Units

DETROIT UNIT

• Word comes from Clair A.
Sfuchell, 1909, architect at Grosse
Pointe, Michigan, that the Detroit
Unit of the Indiana State College
Alumni Association has been dis-
solved.

In a letter to Miss Esch dated
January 2, 1960, Mr. Stuchell
said, "As nearly as I can remem-
ber it is eighteen years since I
joined the unit which was then
hardly more than a year old."

"Throughout those years very
few names of alumni were ac-
quired. Contact with these people
produced some results but among
those who responded few, prac-
tically none, remained in the
Detroit area very long before
moving on to other places."

"Most of our members had
graduated from Indiana during
the first twenty five years of this
century."

"One graduated in 1898, one
in 1899. So, growing older, it
was sometimes difficult to drive
the distances from home to the
place of meeting. Some would
have to travel as far as twenty
five miles."

"Finally so few showed at
meetings that I wrote to the mem-
bers asking their opinions with
regard to continuing. Those who
replied expressed themselves in
favor of discontinuing the organi-
zation."
PITTSBURGH UNIT

The Senior and Junior Groups
of the Pittsburgh Unit joined in
celebrating the Christmas season
on December first, with a dinner
at the Penn Sheraton Hotel.

They also observed the 25th
anniversary of the organization
of the Senior Group. The honor
guests were fourteen of the eigh-
teen past presidents. After dinner,
Letitia McClay Fulton took charge

of the program and called upon
each past president, who recalled
the interesting high lights of her
term of office. They told of many
forgotten incidents with humor
and charm.

Viola Monfredo Costes, presi-
dent of the Junior Group, read o
delightful and appropriate Christ-
mas story; traditional Christmas
Carols were sung, and gifts were
exchanged.

The January Meeting was held
at the home of Gertrude Barthol
and the February one, with Marg-
aret Seibert Mclntyre.

We regret to report the deaths
of two of our members, Minnie
McFarland and Margaretta Mart-
in, and of Mrs. Adelaide Barnes,
mother of Catherine Barnes. Mary
Longwell and Esther Kaplan
Wechler are at present, hospital-
ized.

Audrey Smith Graham and Bet-
ty Piper were delegates to the
Pennsylvania State Education
Convention. Fleta Gillespie has
retired as music supervisor of the
Monroeville Schools.

Plans are completed for the
annual Benefit Bridge Luncheon,
on February 20th, at the Wilkins-
burg Woman's Clubhouse.

Congratulations to Dr. Pratt,
the Faculty, and the Students, for
the continued success of the Col-
lege.

Grace N. Lacock
JEANNETTE UNIT
• The Jeannette Indiana Alumni
Unit met November 16, 1959, at
the home of Mrs. Mamie Long,
541 Brushton Avenue, Greens-
burg. Eighteen members attend-
ed.

Mrs. Viola Hebrank, the presi-
dent, presided at a brief business
meeting. Goal for the year is to
secure new members for the
Jeannette Unit.

Tentative plans were made to
visit the college in a group some-
time during the coming summer.

Thelma Lessig was reported on
sabbatical leave.

Mrs. Lester Brown gave an in-
formative talk on the expansion
program at Indiana. Enrollment
is at an all time high, 2904. The
new Indiana State Teachers Col-
lege athletic field is being de-
veloped off Eleventh Street. Long
range plans include other recre-

ational units on the new college
athletic field.

Mrs. Arvetta Gardner, a guest,
told of the activities of the home-
coming celebration held at the
college in October.

Lunch was served by the com-
mittee: Mrs. Ann Wilps, Mrs.
Dorothy Gettys, Mrs. Agnes Jami-
son, Mrs. Tom Johnson, and Mrs.
Mamie Long. Next meeting will
be April, 1960.

Submitted by
Helen S. Simpson

Change of the Name of the College

• Elimination of the word "teach-
ers" from the title of the State
Teachers Colleges does not mean
that the institutions will no longer
be teachers' preparatory col-
leges.

The elimination of the word
"teachers' " from the title of the
institutions is in keeping with the
general practice across the
country to consider such institu-
tions as State Colleges. Other
states have eliminated the word
from the title in the last few years
but the action of the general As-
sembly in Pennsylvania in chang-
ing the name does not mean the
teacher instruction will be drop-
ped or reduced in quantity or
quality.

There have been changes and
developments taking place in the
field of higher education and this
Pennsylvania move is in keeping
with the general pattern of many
other states.

The State Teachers Colleges,
now to be known simply as State
Colleges, have a long and honor-
able record in the service they
have rendered the schools of the
Commonwealth in the prepar-
ation of teachers. They will con-
tinue to perform the same func-
tions they have in the past and
there is no planned change in
their curriculum or activities.

An indication of the usefulness
of the institutions was indicated
by the approval of a joint reso-
lution in the 1959 session of the
General Assembly, to study the
advisability of creating an ad-
ditional institution in the Bedford
County area and another in West
Philadelphia.

The Joint State Government
Committee was authorized to
make a study of the two locations
and report back to the General
Assembly.

More News Briefs About the College

• Justice William O. Douglas of
the United States Supreme Court
spoke December 1, 1959, at In-
diana State College on the sub-
ject "Democracy vs. Communism
in Asia."

• Clement Earl Attlee, former
Prime Minister of Great Britain,
was a guest on the Indiana State
College campus November 30,
1959.

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• Over 1 20 persons received
their bachelor of science in edu-
cation degrees at the annual
winter commencement at Indiana
State College Sunday, January
17, 1960. Dr. Fred E. Bryan,
superintendent of schools in Har-
risburg, gave the commencement
address on the subject "Good
Teachers."

• Indiana State College is the
largest of the fourteen state col-
leges in Pennsylvania, and is the
twelfth largest of the 123 insti-
tutions of higher education in
Pennsylvania.

• Fifteen Indiana State College
students, directed by Robert W.
Ensley and Charles A. Davis,
made an entertainment tour play-
ing the musical comedy the "Boy
Friend" for the Department of
Defense under the sponsorship of
the USO (United Service Organi-
zation) in association with the
AETA (American Educational
Theater Association).

The Indiana group presented
this musical comedy at military
installations in the Northeast
Command at Greenland, New-
foundland, Labrador, Baffin Is-
land, and Iceland, February 1 to
March 2, 1960.

• Indiana State College, through
its division of graduate studies,
has again entered into a co-
operative project with Mexico City
College, Mexico, whereby Indi-
ana graduate students may com-
bine six weeks residence in a
foreign country with their aca-
demic program, Dr. I. L. Stright,
chairman of the graduate studies
program at Indiana, stated.

Indiana graduate students may
thus earn six semester hours to-
ward the Master of Education de-
gree in a familiar type college,
work under the same supervision
as on the Indiana campus, and
profit from the experience and
atmosphere of a foreign country

and a foreign people.

The six credits earned at Mexi-
co City College may be applied
in the area of general studies in
the Indiana graduate program
and also toward permanent certi-
fication in Pennsylvania.

Application for admission to
the graduate study program at
Indiana and reservations for par-
ticipation in the Latin American
Workshop should be addressed
to: Dr. I. L. Stright, Director of
Graduate Studies, State College,
Indiana, Pennsylvania.

• Members of the board of trust-
ees at the State College, Indiana,
Pa., have agreed to name the
new College Library building in
honor of the late Dr. Rhodes R.
Stabley who served as chairman
of the English-speech department
at the college from September,
1941, until his death on May 15,
1958, Dr. Willis E. Pratt, presi-
dent of the college, disclosed.

The new library is currently
being constructed on the central
campus off Eleventh Street be-
tween Fisher Auditorium and
Clark Hall under an allocation
from the Pennsylvania General
State Authority.

• Brilliant new Boston Opera
production of Jacques Offen-
bach's scintillating comic oper-
etta, "Voyage to the Moon," was
presented at Fisher Auditorium,
State College, Indiana, Tuesday,
January 5, at 8:15 p.m., under
the auspices of the Indiana Col-
lege Cultural Life Series Commit-
tee.

• Graduate School work at Indi-
ana State College has received
high commendations from Dr.
Ewald Nyquist, chairman of the
Commission on Institutions of
Higher Education of the Middle
States Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schols.

Dr. Nyquist stated that the
Commission feels that Indiana

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State College requires a high
quality of work for the Master of
Education degree and is fully
pleased with the graduate work
being done at the College in In-
diana.

As a consequence of the excel-
lent progress and development of
Indiana's graduate school pro-
gram, "The Commission has no
further request of the College in
the way of formal reporting," Dr.
Nyquist asserted.

• The science and mathematics
departments at the Indiana State
College held a dinner at the In-
diana Country Club Wednesday
evening (December 2) in honor
of Dr. and Mrs. Matthew J.
Walsh.

The new science building in
which both departments will soon
be located is named for Dr.
Walsh. Tributes were paid to Dr.
Walsh by Dr. Dwight Sollberger,
chairman of the science depart-
ment; Dr. Joy E. Mahachek, chair-
man of the mathematics depart-
ment; Dr. Willis E. Pratt, president
of the college; and Dr. Ralph
Cordier, dean of instruction.

A hand decorated scroll was
made and presented to Dr. Walsh
by Dr. Orval Kipp as a permanent
record of the good wishes of the
group.

Dr. Matthew J. Walsh served
as dean of instruction at Indiana
State College from 1928 to 1942.
He came to Indiana in 1920 and
served as chairman of the edu-
cation department until 1928.

• Laura Margaret Remsberg, who
has taught at Indiana State Col-
lege for the past thirty-three and
one-half years, retired on Feb-
ruary 1, 1960, according to Dr.
Willis E. Pratt, president of the
college.

Miss Remsberg came to Indiana
as an instructor in the music edu-
cation department in 1926. She

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had previously taught music as a
private instructor and served as
a soloist in Baltimore, New York
City, and in Wilson, North Caro-
lina for a period of nine and one-
half years.

"Miss Remsberg has been a
valued class and private voice
teacher here at the college in
Indiana for many years," Dr.
Harold S. Orendorff, chairman of
the music education department,
stated. "Her colleagues very
greatly value her cooperation
and her services as a member of
the music education faculty."

• Eleven new faculty members
began their work at Indiana State
College with the opening of the
second semester of the 1959-60
academic year, according to Dr.
Willis E. Pratt, president.

The faculty members include
Bernard Ganley who will serve as
assistant dean of men which is a
new position at Indiana State
College, Dr. Pratt said.

Mr. Ganley assumes a new po-
sition at Indiana State Colloge as
assistant dean of men in charge
of supervising residences for men
off campus, doing counseling, and
otHer professional work. He will
also serve as freshman football
coach.

Upon the completion of Lang-
ham Hall, the new dormitory for
men, Mr. and Mrs. Ganley and
their son will occupy the assistant
dean residence in this new dormi-
tory.

ARE YOU STILL READING?

• Answers: 1. Theodore Dreiser,
2. Sinclair Lewis, 3. Geoffry Chau-
cer, 4. Jonathan Swift, 5. Walt
Whitman, 6. Arnold Bennett, 7.
Sir Thomas More, 8. William M.
Thackeray, 9. Charles Darwin, 10.
Adam Smith, 11. Edward Fitz-
gerald, 12. Henry Fielding.

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